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A note on the calculation of firm-specific and skill-specific labor costs from firm-level data

Kaiser, Ulrich - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 220 (2000) 5, pp. 541-551

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A note on the calculation of firm-specific and skill-specific labor costs from firm-Ievel data

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000

Virtually all empirical firm-level studies on the demand for labor do not include labor cost in the econometric specification. This is due to the fact that business and innovation survey data usually lack information on labor cost. This paper shows how reliable skill-specific and firm-specific...

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A note on the calculation of firm-specific and skill-specific labor costs from firm-level data

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000

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Kaiser, Ulrich; Voß, Katrin - 1999

In an a priori view, it is usually assumed that the business cycle of manufacturing industries leads the business cycle of the service sector. This seems to be even more plausible for the relationship between business-related services, whose high growth rates in recent years were largely due to...

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Collective wage agreements and the adjustment of workers and hours in German service firms

Kaiser, Ulrich; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000

There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence is provided on the way collective wage agreements affect the adjustment of working hours, employment and other production factors when firms from the service sector are faced...

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Tarifverträge und Beschäftigungspolitik in Dienstleistungsunternehmen

Kaiser, Ulrich; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000

unternehmensnahen Dienstleistungsunternehmen aus den Jahren 1996 bis 1999. 38 Prozent der Unternehmen in der Stichprobe wenden einen … Tarifvertrag an. In den nicht-tarifgebundenen Unternehmen werden in 87 Prozent die Arbeitsbedingungen einzelvertraglich … beeinflussen. Im Falle von Nachfrageschwankungen wenden tarifgebundene Unternehmen die Instrumente Neueinstellungen und Überstunden …

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On the lead/lag relationship between business-related services and manufacturing in the business cycle

Kaiser, Ulrich; Voß, Katrin - In: IFO-Studien : Zeitschrift für empirische … 46 (2000) 2, pp. 160-175

Trotz seiner in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich gestiegenen gesamtwirtschaftlichen Bedeutung ist über das Verhalten des Wirtschaftszweiges unternehmensnahe Dienstleistung im Konjunkturzyklus bislang wenig bekannt. Es erscheint wegen der starken Outsourcingaktivitäten des verarbeitenden...

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Quantification of qualitative data using ordered probit models with an application to a business survey in the German service sector

Kaiser, Ulrich; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2000

This paper aims at providing business survey analysts with simple econometric tools to quantify qualitative survey data. We extend the traditional and commonly applied method proposed by Carlson and Parkin (1975) to capture observable survey respondent heterogeneity. We also discuss...

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Einfache ökonometrische Verfahren für die Kreditrisikomessung

Kaiser, Ulrich; Szczesny, Andrea - In: Kreditrisikomessung und Kreditrisikomanagement, (pp. 155-203). 2001

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R&D cooperation and R&D intensity : theory and micro-econometric evidence for german manufacturing industries

Kaiser, Ulrich; Licht, Georg - 1998

This paper develops a three stage oligopoly game for R&D cooperation, R&D expenditure and product market competition. In the first stage, firms decide whether or not to conduct R&D in cooperation with other firms. In the second stage the level of R&D investment is determined. Finally, firms...

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